Nyc history

Travel back in time to see what New York City looked like the year you were born in these old vintage photos.

Before Manhattan formed its grid, its residents raised hogs and chickens. The Museum of the City of New York reveals what NYC looked like as farmland.

From an abandoned subway station to a colonial African burial ground lost for almost 300 years, we've rounded up the city’s best kept secrets.

New York City's luxurious old Waldorf-Astoria hotel was among America's first big hotels. When it was built during the Victorian era, it was considered the finest hotel in the world - and soon became the most famous, too.

Forget the Second Avenue subway—we’re obsessed with this elevated train on Third Avenue. In a new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum, there are vintage phot

The Five Points was an NYC neighborhood famed for its violence and debauchery. Read more about the Five Points on StreetEasy's One Block Over.

From NYC in the Sixties by Klaus Lehnartz (1978)

A marvelous melding of art and history, Central Park NYC is the long awaiting new volume from artists/authors Andrew Zega and Bernd H. Dams.